Word: forth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book sets forth the author's theories on a possible area of agreement between moderate liberal and moderate conservative opinions. Schlesinger will defend his work in person...
Finally on October 14, a Department spokesman announced that a joint Western plan would be forth-coming providing for atomic control, disarmament, and a general peace settlement. When the plan was presented on November 14, however, it was nothing of the kind. It was, instead, only a series of clauses seemingly directed against Russian policies and actions, in the U.N. and out. Thus, when the Committee voted for the plan, it merely voted against Russian, and for the West, and little also of a positive nature. The West indeed won a prestige victory, but it did not win peace...
Fooling the Eye. Stripped of technical embroidery, the basic theory of color television is fairly simple. Even a black & white television picture is an optical illusion. All there is on the screen at any instant is a fast-moving bright spot that "scans" back & forth, covering the whole screen with 525 lines of light which the slow-reacting human eye (if not brought too close) sees as a picture. The pictures follow one another so fast (30 a second) that they are blended by the eye to give the illusion of motion-just as the eye blends the frames...
...that I have criticized the food, I will go on to the building itself. The parts of the inside and outside of Stillman I saw were ugly. And I saw nurses walking back and forth through the ward doing little jobs. When they were at one side of the ward, they needed something at the other. And there were so many nurses walking back and forth that I hardly saw the same one twice. And in the bathroom there was a pipe across the mirror at eye level...
Forty years age, the occurence of a girl in the village of Princeton brought forth mobs of curious students and shouts of "Cattle on the campus!" The situation has hardly improved with time...